I think it is so that if the player shut down unexpectedly it does a scan to see if something is wrong with the device. If it can't find anything wrong it boots as usual. The rebuild is because the library is somehow lost since the player crashed earlier, and thus have to be rebuilt.
Though you'd have to ask Creative to be sure, I'm just guessing.

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